The SASL auth message is repeated ad infinitum
All others occurred only once since firing up the system on Aug 8
The time message was caused by resetting the system clock to GMT from UTC and explains why the POP3 daemon etc had become disabled.

I don't think there is anything untoward in the other logs, all the messages seem quite normal

I can send emails via SMTP STARTTLS
Mail is arriving at ../domain/user/Maildir/new and is accessible by webmail

BTW, my reply to your earlier request for info about the apache / mysql problem seems to have been lost.

You asked me to change the mysql-connect instruction to "localhost" from the FQDomainname.

Yes, as far as I can see, all the db and table names are identical with the names in the default database (which I saved prior to importing) and the database imported from the old system.

As for the website database, in desperation to get the site back up, I deleted the database with ISPC3 and then recreated it then copied the table files from the old system. It now works ok ( 1 down, 1 to go!)

Maybe you should open your database in phpMyAdmin and try to repair your tables. Maybe that fixes some problems.

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Oops! maybe that was not such a good idea.

I checked all the tables and they appeared to be identical with the ones in the old system so I tried to import them again but phpmyadmin would not import the dump from the old system. It came back with "File could not be read". So I copied the whole directory and chowned and chmoded it allas I had had to do when I replaced the web site databases.

After entering name and password in ISPC it just returns to the login page with no error message. It must be reading the password as it gives a password error if I mispell the password. Client logins are the same.

When I originally set up the system phpmyadmin allowed DB import for the dpispconfig and web databases.

POP mail is arriving at ../Maildir/new. SMTP is running with StartTLS auth but still I can't download any mail as the SSL/TLS is failing

I restored the database as per your instruction and now the ISPC admin login works ok but I still cannot download any emails from the pop boxes. Webmail works fine and mail is being delivered to the pop boxes and outgoing mail is being sent by smtp.

Just a thought, the original mail system was using Maildir but the new one is using Dovecot. Is there any difference in the config that might explain why the mail download won't work?

The thread title has become a little missleading because the problem refered on the old server. When that was found to have bad sectors on the disk I hurriedly brought into service a new machine that I was in the process of configuring.

Anyway, the problem was the Dovecot config. It seems there are some discrepencies in the documentation. SSL/TLS is not enabled by default and the security certificate is not included in the rpm, at least not the one available from openSUSE. So the fix was to comment out, or change to "yes", the following line in SSL SETTINGS section of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.

Code:

ssl = no

If the certificate is not present there will be an error message when you restart Dovecot.